New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-18
Copyright: 1887 : The Ner- York Tribune.


GOVERNMENT and THE LEAGUE
IBY CABLE THE TRBUNE.l
Copyright. 1887 ; TIE York Trtoune
LONDON Aug. 1.-THE magnificent Home Rule
victory at Northwich coming with cumulative
force after such series of bye election victories
as we have had dispes all doubts as to the real
nature of the uphcaval of popular opinion in
favor of Home Rule. 1t wouli be idle to discuss
the distracted attempts Of the Unionist organs to
explain this victory away Before the election
came off and while they thought they were going
20 win, the UnOnists were declaring it was the
fairest test to which the issue could be subjected
Now some of them are seeking consolation Ill the
pretence that it was Mr.. Brunner's great local
influence won the seat, and not the conversion
of the voters to Home Rule, forgetting that the
same Mr.. BEunner was beaten in the same con-
sttuency last year by majority Of near five
hundred when the question was unripe
But seriously nobody disputes the significance
of this great victory. 1t was on Home kule the
issue was taken, and on nothing else. No other
subject was talked of during the campaign Lord
Henry Grosvenor and his friends spent all their
breath reviling the Irish members in the now
played out style, and the chief speaking on the
other side was done by reviled Irish members
whose treIess exertions and earnest and straight
forward explanation Of their countrys dNmand'
face TO face with the English electors, are now
admitted to have been far and away the most
potent factor in influencing the election. Inns
TACT received an eloquent and striking tribute
I'm Mr. Brunner's selection of an Irish member as
one Of his introducers to the House of Comm ms.
II is the custom in the House OF Commons Tor
a new member when taking bis seat to be lntro-
duccd by two of his colleagues who are already
insta He'd They walk mp the floor one at each side
fl.a a1l who
oath is administered Usually it is one Of the
whips of his own party and some member who
sits for another division of the same constituency
who perform this office On Tuesday evening when
Mr. John O'Connor, member for South IipperaIy,
and Mr. Arndl Morley, the Liberal whip, walked
ND the floor with Mr. Brunner amid the trlum-
phant cheers of the Home Rulers, ii was the hrst
time in the history of the House that an lf'sh
member acted in that capacity for an Ehghsh
colleague Mr.. O'ConnOr had been one OF the most
active and most bitterly assaiied of Mr.. Brunner
supporters during the election. Such an cpisode
marked emphatically the true significance OF the
election, and was moreover noble sNmool oi Ie
trne unity of feeling between the English and
Irish people which the progress of Home Rule Is
bringing about
One of the things which Northwich has placed
beyond further doubt is the utter extinction OF
the Liberal Unionist vote. A curious letter from
Mr. Bright eldest son of Mr.. John Albert Bright,
cast almost as strong light on this subject as
Northwich itself Mr.. Bright recently issued
circular to voters in his fathers constituency
saving that he was desirou> of getting tog >theF
Iibcral-U Unionists. "ThC response to my appeal 10
the Iibei al Un onists." Mr. BRIGHT now conlesses,
did not come up 10 my expectations, many not
having sent me their names. This may atiSe
from their d like to take public part in what
pal.
this as it may their ia lure to reply makes 1t
jmposs or me TO arrive at any estimate OF their
strength and discomages me from taking any
rurthcr steps in the matter
This frank and melancholy confession from
John Bdsht's own constituency might be taken
as the epitaph Of Liberal Unonism.
By tho way. it is remarked that neither MI
Fright Mr. Chamberlain nor Lord Harrington
wrote any letters TO the Uberai-Umonist caIdi-
date though up to tins they had been IN thc
habit of deuging each election with series OF
such manifestoes. The fact is their letters were
found to do more harm than good and they got
the hint TO drop them. The Liberal agent at
Nortliwi h says all that needed TO increase
Nj. Brunner's majority half as much again was
one letter from Mr.. Chamberlain.
The Government and their party have been
driven into a panic by this election. One section
Of their press clamors louder than for Coali-
ton. while another section represented by The
ST. James's Gazette" the organ OF stalwart Tory
ISM will not have Coalition at any price. am
stin OF the opinion / expressed when the subject
was first moot d, that Coalition viii be found
impracticable. The extinction of the Liberal
Unonists' vorc as proved by Northwich makes
this almost a certainty. The stalwart Tories will
revolt at the notion Of Transforming their party
INTO mongrel league for the sake of a band Of
81. l. IL,
constituencies. They believe such policy viii
siclen true Conservatives who Will wash their
hands of politics in disgust and abstain from
voting and that it will contribute more than any
thing else 10 an overwhelming Tory defeat at
the general election. An autumn session is now
suggested as the best way out of the Govern
mcnts awkward dilemma.
Regardin the suppression Of the National League
Northwich has made them afraid than ever
Of interfering with the League On the Other
hand if Parliament adj djourns TIL next year il will
practically mean leaving the League alone till
6hen for the sanction of Parl ament is necessary
to the Lord L'eutenants proclamatOns; and if
they leave the L ague alone long they are
afraid Of the query that VIII then arise, what
lid you want your Coercion Act for? An autumn
session will enable them to say that if the League
gives any trouble Parliament Will be sitting in
November to deal with it.
Tomorrow promises 10 be pregnant evening
in the House. The Government are to announce
their decision with rc0Hrd u the Lords amend
ments TO the Land bill. and hear there is
grave difference in the Cabinet itself between its
members who sit in the Commons and these who
cit in the Lords TO this matter.
I. 7. GILL, NJ. p
ALLOWED TO LAND SICK MAN.
OTTAWA, Aug 1.-THE Department OF Customs has
been informed by Collector Arichat Cape Breton,